•Baseball cards as we know them can be traced notonly to the rising popularity of baseball in the mid-1800s, but to the development of photography andcommercial printing processes..

•The Man Who Coined "Photography"

•Also in 1839, the term "photography" was coined bySir John Herschel, a British mathematician andastronomer (side note: his father, Sir FrederickWilliam Herschel, also a famous astronomer,discovered the planet Uranus!)

•Herschel also coined the terms "negative" and"positive" in the context of photography, and also ofthe vernacular "snapshot."

American Civil War Photography

•The American Civil War (1861–65) was the firstwar in history to be caught on camera.

•There were a good number of battles and otherscenes of the American Civil War, and they haveprovided the world with a visual first hand accountof this period in American history.

•In terms of photography, the American Civil War isthe best covered conflict of the 19th century. Itpresaged the development of the wartimephotojournalism of World War II, the Korean War,and the Vietnam War.

Mathew Brady

•Mathew B. Brady, was born in 1823 in New York.

•Brady can be viewed as the father of photojournalism.

•He was the most prominent photographer of the Civil Warbecause of his commitment and mastery of his job.

•He mastered the art when he was in his 20s.

•Brady would later spend his own accumulated earnings totake pictures of the war. "From the first, I regarded myselfas under obligation to my country to preserve the faces ofits historic men and mothers."

Mathew Brady

•Mathew Brady taken shortlyafter the First Battle of BullRun, wearing a saber given tohim for defense.

•Brady was almost killed atBull Run and in the confusiongot lost for three days,eventually making his way toWashington nearly dead fromstarvation

Oldest Photographs

The Kodak Brownie

•If you asked people in the 1950s, 1970s, or even 1990s whatlife would be like in the year 2000, many would have hadsome pretty interesting answers for you. Futuristic clothing,spaceship-like cars, and advanced robotic systems to handlethe most ordinary daily tasks.

•But now that we are well into the 21st century, we take amoment to reflect on anobject

that helped to usher in thebeginning of a previous century.

This camera made photography easyand affordable for average families.

•The Kodak "Brownie" camera made its debutat the turn of the twentieth century and soldfor one dollar.

•100,000 of them were purchased during thefirst year alone.

•The Brownie helped to put photography intothe hands of amateurs and allowed themiddle class to take their own "snapshots" aswell.

•Eastman Kodak introduced the new Browniedollar box camera in 1900; the release wassupported by a major advertising campaign.The name "Brownie" was chosen primarilybecause of the popularity of a children's bookof cartoons of the same name.